Word: sovereign
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...credible alternative - President Abbas is a spent force, and taking down the Hamas government means, effectively, destroying the Palestinian Authority itself. The resulting vacuum would force Israel to resume administrative control of an increasingly violent and chaotic West Bank and Gaza, territories over which Israel continues to maintain sovereign control. And that would wreck Olmert's plans to unilaterally redraw boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians on terms most favorable to Israel. Better to allow Palestinian infighting that will likely destroy any chance of creating a coherent Palestinian response to Olmert's plans. Then again, even if Israel doesn...
...uranium. Ghomi made it clear his government does not take kindly to being told what to do. Just as no one should interfere the internal affairs of Iraq, he said, the U.S. should not contemplate interfering in Iran. ?It?s our position that we want to be a sovereign and independent country, but the Americans seem to think they know better than us, that they know our own mind and that we do not want nuclear weapons,? he said...
...often said the border is its own country, "Amexica," neither Mexican nor American. "The border is not where the U.S. stops and Mexico begins," says Laredo mayor Betty Flores. "It's where the U.S. blends into Mexico." Both sides regard their sovereign governments as distant and dysfunctional. They are proud of their ability to take care of themselves, solve their problems faster and cheaper than any faraway bureaucrat. The Brownsville, Texas, fire trucks answer sirens on the other side; in Tijuana, Mexico, health clinics send shuttle buses every morning to meet people coming over for everything from dentistry to dialysis...
...When asked pointedly by an Iraqi journalist on Monday morning if she was interfering in Iraq?s sovereign affairs, Rice said countries like the U.S. who gave lives so Iraq could be ?liberated from a tyrant? have a ?right to expect? the formation of a government, but it is up to Iraqis themselves to chose who will take the seats. ?We should not and will not say who the prime minister of Iraq should be,? said Rice...
...border as a right—if Mexicans believed this, they would be crossing conspicuously, in broad daylight rather than digging tunnels or hiring “coyotes” to smuggle them across the border. Mexicans are well aware that it is the U.S.’s sovereign right to enforce its laws; these immigrants continue to cross only because they have no other choice. Nevertheless, undocumented Mexican immigrants violate U.S. laws. For an immigrant who just wants to provide for his family, however, violating border regulations is the least of his concerns; it is a matter...